MEXICO Law and Practice Contributed by: Melissa Franco and Mauricio Oropeza, Deloitte Impuestos y Servicios Legales, S.C.
• one applicable to governmental bodies; and • one governing private parties. Both regulations currently do not have extraterritorial effects. Several data privacy laws were enacted on 21 March 2025, marking a substantial change in data protection regulation in Mexico. All the major laws on the matter were derogated and enacted, looking to homologate the data protection regulation in views of the extinc - tion of the autonomous constitutional body that acted as guarantor in matters of data protection and trans - parency at a federal and local level ( Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protec- ción de Datos Personales , or INAI).
As Mexico is currently in the transition period from the INAI to the new guarantor bodies, whether or not the previously issued criteria will kept or new criteria will be issued is yet to be seen. However, data protection is still a relevant matter for the authorities, which focus mainly on the information of private parties and have several options to exercise their rights on such mat - ters, as well as the power to apply several economic and non-economic sanctions to private parties in case of non-compliance.
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